‘Masterminds’ Review: Sublimely Silly
‘Masterminds’ is just a little bit too weird for its own good. That’ll be exactly what makes the proud few who fall for this collection of eccentricity to fall deeply and what will drive everyone else away.
‘Masterminds’ is just a little bit too weird for its own good. That’ll be exactly what makes the proud few who fall for this collection of eccentricity to fall deeply and what will drive everyone else away.
At this point, it’s almost difficult to remember that Tim Burton once used to be one of the most excitingly unpredictable and creative filmmakers in Hollywood. Today, he mostly just latches onto popular properties, tosses a ...
Based on the underreported human tragedy behind the infamous 2010 BP oil spill, ‘Deepwater Horizon’ is mainstream boom-boom entertainment with a heart done right. It’s thrilling spectacle just grounded enough to ...
Say what you will about Rob Zombie, the guy clearly has a vision. Within a matter of seconds, it’s immediately clear that the divisive filmmaker put his stamp all over his latest filthy creation. You’re either on board...
‘Queen of Katwe’ is a feel-good movie from feel-good Disney that makes feel-good pictures feel good. It’s not groundbreaking. It’s not even particularly surprising. However, the movie is quite well made and...
Boy, there sure are a lot of talking animal cartoon movies these days, huh? Barely a month passes between these things anymore, and unless Pixar or Illumination is involved, they tend to run the gamut from mediocre to miserable wi...
Some years, two movies about the same subject inexplicably compete for viewers’ attention. You know, like ‘Volcano’ vs. ‘Dante’s Peak’ or ‘Armageddon’ vs. ‘Deep Impact’. ...
Werner Herzog is a brilliant filmmaker when his unique imagination matches up with the right material. Given that the guy tends to make movies even faster and in greater numbers than Woody Allen, that means that his talents syncin...
Ana Lily Amirpour had a striking directorial debut with the black-and-white Iranian vampire Western ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night‘. Clearly a filmmaker of great talent and imagination, she’s returned this yea...
‘The Dressmaker’ is all over the place as a movie and that’s what makes it both so entertaining and so off-putting. Returning to the director’s chair for the first time since the 1990s, Jocelyn Moorhouse (&...
No one ever asked for a remake of ‘The Magnificent Seven’. Quite apart from the fact that the original movie is a product of its time, the thing was already a remake of ‘Seven Samurai’. Remaking a remake so...
In many ways ‘Voyage of Time’ is the movie that Terrence Malick has been building toward over the last decade of his career. It’s purely a collection of extraordinary nature imagery chronicling the history of the...